Rambler & Co seeks startups in its shift to becoming an Internet tech firm
Rambler & Co, a major Russian tech media group, is seeking to move away from its present status as a media company towards Internet technologies. As reported by Russian daily Vedomosti, the company is creating two startup accelerators to achieve this goal....
Photo-Sharing App Memoir Snags $5.5 Million To Help You Recall The Past
Photo-sharing application Memoir, a Timehop competitor that allows you to rediscover old photo “memories,” has raised an additional $5.5 million in a round led by Redpoint Ventures’ Ryan Sarver. Others participating included prior investors Founder Collective, Box...
Social Betting App Youbetme Raises $2.7M
TechCrunch Youbetme, the startup behind the social betting app of the same name, announced today that it has raised $2.7 million in Series A funding. Youbetme says it launched the app in January. The company bills itself as a way to “bet on anything, at any...
Eric Schmidt’s Farm2050 Collective Will Back Agriculture Tech To Feed Earth’s Growing Population
We’ll need to produce 70% more food by 2050 to sustain a world population expected to grow to 10 billion. Yet agriculture startups struggle to get the funding, manufacturing, and test facilities needed to build tech that could boost food production. To fix that...
Alibaba’s Ant Financial Takes Minority Stake In Security Software Maker V-Key To Beef Up Alipay
TechCrunch V-Key, a security software maker for mobile apps, has raised $12 million from Alibaba Group affiliate Ant Financial Services and IPV Capital, a venture capital firm based in China. The Series B round means that Ant Financial now has a minority stake in...
RealScout Raises $6 Million Series A For Better Real Estate Search Technology
TechCrunch When consumers are home shopping these days, they tend to be drawn to consumer-friendly portals like Zillow, Trulia, Redfin and others, which offer simple, user-friendly tools to take on what’s otherwise a complex and confusing process. But these services...
SysCloud Raises $2.5M To Help Businesses Keep Their Google Apps Accounts Safe
TechCrunch SysCloud, a service that offers a comprehensive suite of services aimed to keep companies’ Google Apps accounts safe and backed up, today announced that it has raised a $2.5 million Series A round led by new investor Inventus Capital Partners and previous...
Revel Systems Raises $100M To Grow Its iPad Point-Of-Sale Business, Sets Sights On IPO
TechCrunch iPad-based point-of-sale platform maker Revel Systems has raised $100 million in a Series C round of funding, multiplying the startup’s existing funding raise by almost a factor of ten. The new funding comes from NYC private equity firm Welsh, Carson,...
Thanx Gets $4.7 Million From Sequoia, Partners With Visa And MasterCard
Customer loyalty program startup Thanx launched today with both a Visa and MasterCard partnership and $4.7 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. An earlier seed round from SoftTech VC of $1.3 million brings the total funding raised to $6 million. Thanx...
Fuel3D Bags Another $6.4M For Its 3D Scanner Tech As It Eyes New Verticals
TechCrunch What’s a 3D scanner for? More than just providing source material for 3D printers, reckons Fuel3D, an Oxford University spin-out that last year Kickstarted a consumer-grade, high-resolution handheld 3D scanner. Today it’s announcing a $6.4 million expansion...
Indonesian Marketplace Tokopedia Raises $100M From SoftBank and Sequoia
Tokopedia, an online marketplace in Indonesia, has raised an impressive $100 million round led by SoftBank Internet and Media (SIMI), with participation from Sequoia Capital and returning investor SB Pan Asia Fund. The valuation was undisclosed. The investment is the...
Google Acquires Firebase To Help Developers Build Better Real-Time Apps
TechCrunch Google today announced that it has acquired Firebase, a backend service that helps developers build realtime apps for iOS, Android and the web that can store and sync data instantly. Firebase currently has almost 110,000 registered developers on its...